In the penultimate episode of our series of histories we put cybercrime and particular fraud into its historical context with Dr Mike Levi. Dr Levi is professor of criminology at Cardiff University and a deserving recipient of the Outstanding Achievement award for criminology from the British Society of Criminology.
More about our Guest:
https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/38041-levi-michael
Mentioned in this Show:
SNC Lavalin and Trudeau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNC-Lavalin_affair
The Hungarian Circle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Oberlander
There have been a lot of Riots in Bristol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_riots#National_riots,_August_2011
Displacement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_displacement
Dr Carlo Morselli
https://crim.umontreal.ca/repertoire-departement/professeurs/professeur/in/in14440/sg/Carlo Morselli/
I am very much paraphrasing Dr Morselli at the end of this episode, I unfortunately only took short hand notes as he delivered this message in french in a speech that tied together a class on criminology that included much discussion and exercises that was as awesome, engaging, funny, and inspiring as it was inimitable.
A Thousand Cuts
Death by a thousand paper cuts is a figure of speech that refers to the failure of an organization by the introduction of bureaucracy and many small inefficiencies and issues that slowly leads to bankruptcy.
Obligatory Joke:
I laughed quite a bit during the taping of this episode but I had to edit most of it out so as not to distract from Dr Levi. I probably owe you a laugh.
When I was a kid, my mother told me I could be anyone I wanted to be.
Turns out, identity theft is a crime.
This episode was recorded in July 2020.